World-News

Why is the USA still in Afghanistan?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/why-is-the-usa-still-in-afghanistan.html

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US War Machine Leaves Ugly Imprint in Afghanistan
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31

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I Question Your Patriotism
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance315.html

Black Swan Ahead
http://lewrockwell.com/woods/woods222.html

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The US war machine

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Anthony Gregory

01/01/13

Many supporters of Barack Obama are disappointed that he has not reversed the war policies of his predecessor. He did his best to continue the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The Afghanistan war rages far beyond what was seen under George W. Bush. Obama has also proved militaristic in operations in Libya, Yemen, and Pakistan, and in the sanctions against Iran. The attacks on civil liberties and human rights continue on the same path that Bush forged...

http://tinyurl.com/bd3hueb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Game-Changers, Black Swans, Tectonic Shifts and a World Not That Different From 2012

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: We are spending $75 billion on ''intelligence'' and giving up what were once classic American rights and liberties. The US intelligence community would like this to continue since it is part of the Washington, DC bubble that is too comfortable to change.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13683-the-us-intelligence-communitys-new-years-wish-megatrends-game-changers-black-swans-tectonic-shifts-and-a-world-not-that-different-from-2012

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112th Congress succeeded most at 'erosion of civil liberties'

Video

''How disturbing is it that the success of the 112th Congress is to pass legislation that essentially criminalizes elements of democracy?''

http://is.gd/gDirKO



A Time for 'Sublime Madness'

By Chris Hedges

The decimation of civil liberties, carried out in the name of fighting terror, will shackle us to an interconnected security and surveillance state that stretches from Moscow to Istanbul to New York.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33679.htm


From Information Clearing House



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http://ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/11334/

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Drone War Spurs Militants to Deadly Reprisals

They are dead men talking, and they know it. Gulping nervously, the prisoners stare into the video camera, spilling tales of intrigue, betrayal and paid espionage on behalf of the United States. Some speak in trembling voices, a glint of fear in their eyes. Others look resigned. All plead for their lives.

http://is.gd/glKxgf


From Information Clearing House



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Tit-for-tat moves between Russia and the US are plunging the two nations into a new Cold War, says Russia expert Stephen Cohen. Washington s longtime policy towards Moscow is to blame for the growing tensions.

http://rt.com/news/cold-war-russia-us-047/


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Cold+War
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Video Narrated By Sean Penn

This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33469.htm



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Video

Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with us to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration's disregard for the rule of law.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33468.htm



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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan288.html

The Hagel Trap
http://lewrockwell.com/orig14/mcadams1.1.1.html

The Neocons Get More Outrageous
http://lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried130.html

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Chuck Hagel s big problem: being a realist about American power and Iran

Op-Ed

The former Nebraska senator faces fierce opposition to possible nomination as defense secretary from Washington's militarists.

http://is.gd/6QyRAo



Sheldon Adelson invested in fight against Hagel

Secretly-funded groups in the United States have been running advertisements against the appointment of Chuck Hagel to secretary of defense...

http://is.gd/fqTlzJ


From Information Clearing House

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Obama Needs Hagel in the Pentagon

Ray McGovern, The Baltimore Sun: Mr. Hagel would be the first secretary of defense in 30 years with lessons learned from direct combat experience. About time, I would say.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13693-obama-needs-hagel-in-the-pentagon



Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel

Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times: Conservative interest groups like Americans for a Strong Defense and Use Your Mandate are investing big money in their campaign to discredit Secretary of Defense candidate Chuck Hagel...

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14173-secret-donors-finance-fight-against-hagel



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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jim+Rutenberg
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On The Killing of Children and Others, Domestic and Foreign

By Lawrence Davidson

Too many Americans see themselves as exceptional: blessed by God, expert practitioners of free enterprise, and the people who really know what freedom and rights are all about.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33449.htm




American Politics and the Innocent Children Killed

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD

Americans need to realize how their hallowed capitalist ideology of the putative American Dream is in practice nothing but the destruction of communities and millions of individuals on the altar of elite profit-making.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33505.htm



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Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: If the Democratic Party doesn t hold Billionaire-istan accountable with new wealth taxes and protections for workers, then they will accomplish their all-out looting of America.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13581-republicans-are-the-ruling-party-of-billionaire-istan



Why Republicans Don t Care What the Nation Thinks

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: Are House Republicans, now summoned back to Washington by Speaker John Boehner, about to succumb to public pressure and save the nation from the fiscal cliff? Don t bet on it.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13587-cliff-hanger-why-republicans-dont-care-what-the-nation-thinks



More Theft Under the Guise of the Fiscal Cliff

Kevin Zeese, Its Our Economy: The fiscal cliff is a self-created bi-partisan drama that demonstrates the failure of traditional politics and the need for mobilized resistance and a new independent poltical movement.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13619-more-theft-under-the-guise-of-the-fiscal-cliff



The Case Against Billionaires

Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: It s time to start funneling the riches produced by the American economy to the real job creators: working class people who are spending money.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13698-the-case-against-billionaires

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America s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff

By Michael Hudson

Holding the bottom 99% in debt, the top 1% are now in the process of subsidizing a deceptive economic theory to persuade voters to pursue policies that benefit the financial sector at the expense of labor, industry, and democratic government as we know it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33471.htm



Net worth of world s richest rose by $241B in 2012

The richest people on the planet got richer in 2012, adding $241 billion to their collective net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world s 100 wealthiest individuals.

http://is.gd/ZYvbqT


From Information Clearing House

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'Aggressive' New Phase of Anti-Worker Campaign Underway
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/14-0

Corpocrisy: The Systematic Betrayal of American Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/04-7



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Sam Sacks, The Big Picture: Sam Sacks speaks with Truthout's Lead Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold about what newly released documents reveal about the FBI s surveillance of the Occupy movement.

http://truth-out.org/video/item/13577-fbi-on-wrong-side-of-history

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FBI Monitored Occupy Wall Street and Treated the Movement as a Potential Terrorist Threat

By Democracy Now!

Counterterrorism agents were used to track Occupy activities despite the internal acknowledgment that the movement opposed violent tactics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33454.htm



Revealed: How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

By Naomi Wolf

New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33477.htm



Inside the FBI s 'Terror factory'

Video

The FBI has been heavily criticized for preying on individuals who are on the fringes of society and Trevor Aaronson, author of ''The Terror Factory,'' analyzes the FBI s devious tactics in his new book.

http://is.gd/ITR47H



FBI Celebrates Duping Another Mentally Ill Man Into Fake Terror Plot

By Alex Newman

Burst of fantastical headlines about ''foiled'' so-called ''terror plots'' helps to keep paranoia alive among gullible citizens while ensuring that the taxpayer money continues flowing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33959.htm



Feds execute another terror sting

The FBI s use of sting operations in terror cases has been sharply criticized by activists and scholars who claim law enforcement is helping individuals with mental problems and/or little individual perseverance pursue plots they would be unable or unlikely to complete on their own.

http://is.gd/ZsYqUY



Oakland, California: FBI foils another fake terror plot

The charges filed against Matthew Llaneza, 28, stem from a months-long operation staged by the FBI s South Bay Joint Terrorism Task Force. The event is the latest in a long series of bogus terror plots hatched or otherwise encouraged by the federal government.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/02/20/oakl-f20


From Information Clearing House

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Senate Votes to Extend Sweeping Surveillance Powers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/28

Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/20

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What s Wrong With the Surveillance State?
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff398.html



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